Mary Jane are those female pumps – with or without heel – which have a single strap crossing the instep. Why they are called this way? In the early years of the 1900 on the New York’s Herald was published a comic called Buster Brown, whose protagonist – Buster – was something of a style icon for kids of the period, so that he was imitated even in the hairstyle. Buster had a sister – Mary Jane – who always wore the typical flat shoes with round toe and one strap, which I guess everyone has worn at some stage between childhood and adolescence. This type of shoes escaped from the child wardrobes to enter in adult women’s ones a few years later, in the ’60s. They turned perfectly suited to the climate of rebellion of the period, when youth, childhood and innocence were celebrated with new sexual connotations.